Astonishing Facts....

[The Turbonator]

Zetec-S said:

The most dangerous stretch of water in the world is...



... apparently in Yorkshire. Specifically, a stretch of the River Wharfe known as 'The Strid'. Rumoured to be a 100% fatality rate for those who fall in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCSUmwP02T8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Wharfe#The_Str...

Live close by to that and have spent many days as a child and as an adult walking by it. My parents put the fear of God in me about jumping over it or getting too close.

I must admit it really doesn't look too bad and it looks very easy to jump over but I suppose that's why it's so dangerous. I mean no normal person would try and jump over Niagra Falls.

[Einion Yrth]

The Turbonator said:

Zetec-S said:

The most dangerous stretch of water in the world is...



... apparently in Yorkshire. Specifically, a stretch of the River Wharfe known as 'The Strid'. Rumoured to be a 100% fatality rate for those who fall in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCSUmwP02T8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Wharfe#The_Str...

it looks very easy to jump over

Well, it is, but one misstep and not only are you dead, but your body will never be found; not worth the risk; there's a bridge just upstream.

[Cognoscenti]

Zetec-S said:

The most dangerous stretch of water in the world is...



... apparently in Yorkshire. Specifically, a stretch of the River Wharfe known as 'The Strid'. Rumoured to be a 100% fatality rate for those who fall in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCSUmwP02T8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Wharfe#The_Str...

They guy in that Youtube video was very dramatic.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Rostfritt said:

SCEtoAUX said:

Rostfritt said:

Mesh is a clever design idea. Light at a higher frequency can pass but for the frequency the microwave works at it is a faraday cage. Hence it is not dangerous to stand in front of it watching your food heat up (not cook, just heat up). Same as how satellite dishes are usually mesh to reduce weight and wind resistance.

So not the same at all then.

Yes. It reflects the signal back at the LNB. The door reflects it back into the microwave.

Nice one. SECtoAUX not such a clever smart arse now.

[Vaud]

Cognoscenti said:

They guy in that Youtube video was very dramatic.

A little. But it is lethal (l grew up nearby)

[TwigtheWonderkid]

When a new dictionary is published, they will insert about 5 or 6 mountweazels. A mountweazel is a made up word, inserted into a dictionary to stop other dictionary makers from just copying your work. If you suspect your dictionary has been copied, the presence of the same mountweazels will prove it, and enable you to sue.

[meehaja]

I kayaked the strid a few times. fun.

[skilly1]

Pink Haribo and Pink Marshmallows (amongst others) get the colour from dried beetle blood. It’s so they can say all natural ingredients.

[Sheets Tabuer]

Comes from cochineal, crushed insects or E120 food ingredient. Avoid E120 and you're good

[SpeckledJim]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

When a new dictionary is published, they will insert about 5 or 6 mountweazels. A mountweazel is a made up word, inserted into a dictionary to stop other dictionary makers from just copying your work. If you suspect your dictionary has been copied, the presence of the same mountweazels will prove it, and enable you to sue.

Cartographers do the same thing by including one or more features in their maps that aren’t really there.

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

skilly1 said:

Pink Haribo and Pink Marshmallows (amongst others) get the colour from dried beetle blood. It’s so they can say all natural ingredients.

The dye is Cochineal. It doesn't come from dried beetle blood, it derives from the Carminic acid produced by the Cochineal beetle and which is part of the beetle's defencive system against predation by other insects.

Insects don't have 'blood' as in mammals (and certainly no red blood cells) but something called hemolymph which can be likened to a combination of blood and lymphatic fluid, however it has no Oxygen carrying ability.

Diffusion of oxygen into the body of an insect occurs via spiracles which are effectively respiratory pores which occur over the body of the insect.

[SCEtoAUX]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Rostfritt said:

SCEtoAUX said:

Rostfritt said:

Mesh is a clever design idea. Light at a higher frequency can pass but for the frequency the microwave works at it is a faraday cage. Hence it is not dangerous to stand in front of it watching your food heat up (not cook, just heat up). Same as how satellite dishes are usually mesh to reduce weight and wind resistance.

So not the same at all then.

Yes. It reflects the signal back at the LNB. The door reflects it back into the microwave.

Nice one. SECtoAUX not such a clever smart arse now.

Whoah there Nellie, not so quick with the "smart arse" comment. The mesh in the microwave was stated as using mesh as a Faraday cage, whereas the mesh on the satellite dish was stated as being used to reduce weight and wind resistance. Those two things aren't the same, hence my comment.

The fact that the dish reflects signals like a microwave wasn't stated in the original post, and had that comparison been made instead I'd have been in full agreement.

[JustinF]

SCEtoAUX said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Rostfritt said:

SCEtoAUX said:

Rostfritt said:

Mesh is a clever design idea. Light at a higher frequency can pass but for the frequency the microwave works at it is a faraday cage. Hence it is not dangerous to stand in front of it watching your food heat up (not cook, just heat up). Same as how satellite dishes are usually mesh to reduce weight and wind resistance.

So not the same at all then.

Yes. It reflects the signal back at the LNB. The door reflects it back into the microwave.

Nice one. SECtoAUX not such a clever smart arse now.

Whoah there Nellie, not so quick with the "smart arse" comment. The mesh in the microwave was stated as using mesh as a Faraday cage, whereas the mesh on the satellite dish was stated as being used to reduce weight and wind resistance. Those two things aren't the same, hence my comment.

The fact that the dish reflects signals like a microwave wasn't stated in the original post, and had that comparison been made instead I'd have been in full agreement.

They are both design to retain and reflect something, whilst allowing something else to pass through, either you get that or you're just being a semantics twunt.

[glazbagun]

Octopus (octopii?) Evolved lensed eyes on a completely seperate evolutionary path to our own. The same basic design evolved twice!

Also, despite their amazing camoflague those eyes are colourblind.

Also, also- they have blue blood because they use copper to bind oxygen instead of iron as we do. Just really weird creatures.

[Stan the Bat]

glazbagun said:

Octopus (octopii?) Evolved lensed eyes on a completely seperate evolutionary path to our own. The same basic design evolved twice!

Also, despite their amazing camoflague those eyes are colourblind.

Also, also- they have blue blood because they use copper to bind oxygen instead of iron as we do. Just really weird creatures.

Aliens.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Stan the Bat said:

Aliens.

Tasty aliens.

[SCEtoAUX]

JustinF said:

SCEtoAUX said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Rostfritt said:

SCEtoAUX said:

Rostfritt said:

Mesh is a clever design idea. Light at a higher frequency can pass but for the frequency the microwave works at it is a faraday cage. Hence it is not dangerous to stand in front of it watching your food heat up (not cook, just heat up). Same as how satellite dishes are usually mesh to reduce weight and wind resistance.

So not the same at all then.

Yes. It reflects the signal back at the LNB. The door reflects it back into the microwave.

Nice one. SECtoAUX not such a clever smart arse now.

Whoah there Nellie, not so quick with the "smart arse" comment. The mesh in the microwave was stated as using mesh as a Faraday cage, whereas the mesh on the satellite dish was stated as being used to reduce weight and wind resistance. Those two things aren't the same, hence my comment.

The fact that the dish reflects signals like a microwave wasn't stated in the original post, and had that comparison been made instead I'd have been in full agreement.

They are both design to retain and reflect something, whilst allowing something else to pass through, either you get that or you're just being a semantics twunt.

I think you mean pedantic. Anyway, you're wrong. The microwave has a mesh because it allows certain frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum to be contained, whilst other pass through. This is the Faraday cage as described. The satellite dish has a mesh to reduce weight and wind resistance, it is not trying to allow certain frequencies to pass and other to reflect.

[Bonefish Blues]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Stan the Bat said:

Aliens.

Tasty aliens.

Intelligent too.

[GOG440]

Frimley111R said:

Mr2Mike said:

I dont recall giving that information, though they did ask about any eye injuries that may have left metal inside the eye...

Me neither, the only thing they have to consider is if the patient is too fat to go into one as they are very tight for space inside.

very belated reply, but it is on every screening form i have seen in the 18 years I have been doing MRI.
There are weight limits for the scanners but we tend to run out of space well before the limit.
The reason we ask about metal in your eyes is that unlike most other bits of your body your eyes dont develop the scar tissue that would hold the metal fragment in place, you really dont want a piece of metal ricocheting around your eyeball at 40mph

[JulianPH]

SCEtoAUX said:

JustinF said:

SCEtoAUX said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Rostfritt said:

SCEtoAUX said:

Rostfritt said:

Mesh is a clever design idea. Light at a higher frequency can pass but for the frequency the microwave works at it is a faraday cage. Hence it is not dangerous to stand in front of it watching your food heat up (not cook, just heat up). Same as how satellite dishes are usually mesh to reduce weight and wind resistance.

So not the same at all then.

Yes. It reflects the signal back at the LNB. The door reflects it back into the microwave.

Nice one. SECtoAUX not such a clever smart arse now.

Whoah there Nellie, not so quick with the "smart arse" comment. The mesh in the microwave was stated as using mesh as a Faraday cage, whereas the mesh on the satellite dish was stated as being used to reduce weight and wind resistance. Those two things aren't the same, hence my comment.

The fact that the dish reflects signals like a microwave wasn't stated in the original post, and had that comparison been made instead I'd have been in full agreement.

They are both design to retain and reflect something, whilst allowing something else to pass through, either you get that or you're just being a semantics twunt.

I think you mean pedantic. Anyway, you're wrong. The microwave has a mesh because it allows certain frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum to be contained, whilst other pass through. This is the Faraday cage as described. The satellite dish has a mesh to reduce weight and wind resistance, it is not trying to allow certain frequencies to pass and other to reflect.

Nope. He is right. Semantics relates to the the use or meaning of language. Pedantic has a completely different meaning (being over scrupulous of something). Sorry, you have embarrassed yourself!